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PATENT O. HALDRIDGE SMITH, OF ANAMOSA, IOWA.

WALL-BRACKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 325,456, dated September 1, 1885.

Application filed March 2, 1885. No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, C. HALDRIDGE SMITH, of Anamosa, in the county of Jones and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Wall-Brackets; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and the a loop, E, which surrounds the post or arm letters of reference thereon.

My invention relates particularly to the class of brackets for the support of maps, charts, lamps, the; and it consists in the combination, with an ordinary singleshelf bracket, of a removable arm or support, and in means for readily attaching and securing the same to the shelf of the bracket, and in the details of construction and arrangement of such parts, all as more fully hereinafter described and claimed.

For the better understanding of my improvements in detail, attention isinvited to the accompanying, drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective View of the device secured to a. wall and supporting a map; Fig. 2, a detail of the disk for securing the arm or support to the bracket, and Fig. 3 a detail of this arm or support and its loop.

Like letters of reference denote correspond-- ing parts in the several views.

A denotes an ordinary wall-bracket, pro vided with a single shelf, B, which supports a removable disk, E, attached by means of a screw-threaded bolt, a, passing through the shelf and disk, and secured by a thumb-nut, 7 on the lower end of the bolt. This disk,which is preferably made round, is provided with an upward oblique arm or post, 0, having at its upper end a horizontal cross-bar, D, which may be removable.

This disk E is further provided on its edge (preferably at a point opposite the joint of the post or arm 0 with the disk) with a sharp projection, E, to enter a notch out in the lower edge of the arm or support F, which holds the map, chart, lamp, or other device. This arm or support should be suitably adapted to securely hold whatever it is intended to support, and has at one end G of the disk E below the cross bar D, that bears upon its upper edges and bites with a force relative to the tension applied by the thumb-nut b. This arm or support F is further secured in its position by the projection E, which, even in the absence of a notch in the arm, (if the latter be made of wood,) is sharp enough to force itself into the arm from the pressure applied by the thumb-nut b.

What I claim, and desire to soon re by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, with asingle-shelf wallbracket, of an arm or support, F, having a loop at one end, a disk, E, with an arm, 0,

sion-screw for securing said disk to the shelf of the bracket, substantially as described.

2. The combination of the bracket A, the disk E, with the arm or post 0 and cross-bar D, and the arm or support F, with loop F on one end, substantially as described.

3. The combination of the bracket A, the arm or support F, having loop F, the disk E, having post or arm G, with a cross-bar, D, and bolt to, with its nut b, and the sharp projection E, substantia ly as described.

0. HALDRlDGE SMITH.

Vi tn ess es F. S. DUNKLEE, A. F. CooLEY.

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